Good morning! Brr, it's cold! Temps drops into the teens today before another warmup tomorrow and Friday. Remember: Layers. The secret to a long life is ... sweet potatoes? The woman believed to be the oldest person in the U.S. passed away at her home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Tuesday. Lessie Brown's family said the 114-year-old avoided alcohol and ate sweet potatoes nearly every day until well after her 100th birthday. | Forecast
For all the formality of an Oval Office address, the partial shutdown is no closer to being over, and Democrats and Republicans are living in very different worlds when it comes to immigration policy. | Fact check: Trump and the disputed border crisis
The formalities of the first day of the 2019 legislative session eventually made way for an hourslong debate about transparency, previewing some of the conflicts ahead. | Your guide to the 2019 session
Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn't enough to reduce the country's 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago.